E INK has announced that 2025 marks the first year when they will focus on large e-paper displays for e-book readers. While expanding into large formats, they will continue to strengthen their mid-size e-paper business, which remains the company’s operational bedrock. Efforts will focus on enhancing display speed and color performance for e-readers and digital notepads, while simultaneously improving cost competitiveness to match LCD panels.
During an E INK shareholders meeting, President Johnson Lee declared 2025 as a defining milestone for the company—the official start of what he called the first year of large-format e-paper. Since its founding in 1992, E Ink has focused on small-format displays. Now, for the first time, it is moving into a large-sized e-paper, a strategic shift that brings new challenges in quality standards, production scale, and a wholesale transformation in market positioning.
E Ink believes that through sustained innovation and deep ecosystem collaboration, large-format color e-paper will become a significant driver of growth. At the same time, its mid-sized products will continue to serve as a foundation for stable operations, with ongoing improvements in cost efficiency and performance.
Lee said that 2024 saw stable growth. Full-color e-paper has entered mass production, with integration into a growing number of e-reader and e-notebook brands. The shift is also fueling a new wave of product upgrades, particularly in large-format and color-enhanced devices, in response to evolving consumer demand.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.